safety quotes

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

There is always safety in valor.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Precaution is better than cure.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Silence is safer than speech.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.